Once upon a time, PDF was PDF and SWF was SWF and never the twain would meet,…but in today's brave new world, you can mix and match at least to some degree,…letting you add some very cool elements to your interactive PDF files, and the…key is to remember that SWF files are basically just animations, that is movies.…So most of the things that you can do with movies in InDesign, you can do with…the SWF, and just as with movies, you have to export it as a PDF file to see it…work on the page. Even then it may not work in some situations, more on that in…a minute, but first, here is how to import a SWF into your InDesign page.…

I am going to go to the File menu, choose Place and then choose my SWF. In this…case, I am going to choose Cocoa, click Open, and now I can either click, or…click and drag, it places the SWF into a brand new frame, and now I could scale…it or move it or whatever, but the first thing I am going to do is double-click…on it to go to Movie Options.…Double-clicking on it, is the same thing as going to Object, Interactive Movie…

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7/2/2009

InDesign's high-quality typography and layout tools go beyond print. In InDesign CS4: 10 Things to Know About Interactive PDFs, David Blatner explores interactive PDF files and the techniques used to add movies and sounds to them. In addition, David explains how to avoid common pitfalls and reveals some tricks for making eye-catching documents as efficiently as possible.

Topics include:

Following best practices for new documents

Creating multi-step bulleted slides

Embedding hyperlinks and page transitions to navigate inside the document or jump to a web site